Steve Bannon will travel next week to Cincinnati to rally and raise money for a wall on private land along the border with Mexico.

Steve Bannon (L), former adviser to President Trump, is joined by Brian Kolfage, founder of 'We Build The Wall,' and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Koback, during a public discussion of border issues in Green Valley Friday night.(Photo: Alexis Egeland)

Also appearing at the event in the Hilton Netherland Plaza on Fifth Street will be the cowboy-hatted, pro-Trump former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke; former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the founder of We Build The Wall, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage.

We Build The Wall organizers chose Cincinnati as the second stop on the tour despite 1,400 miles separating the Mexican border and Cincinnati. The first rally was held Feb. 8 in Tucson.

The connection between the opioid crisis in Ohio and drugs coming across the border was one of the reasons Ohio seemed like an appropriate place, said Jennifer Lawrence, spokeswoman for We Build The Wall. There were also many Ohio conservative activists who had reached out to the organization, she said.

About 280 people showed up to the Tucson event with a handful of protesters outside and one protester who made it inside but was escorted out, according to the Tuscon Sentinel.

As of Wednesday morning, there were 233 people registered for the Cincinnati event with a capacity for 350.

Lawrence anticipated there'd be some protests but nothing disruptive.

"There is always going to be a controversy," Lawrence said. "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. There'll be security in place. It will be a great event."

Kolfage started We Build The Wall after GoFundMe in December refunded the $20 million he raised from 337,000 donors. The company refunded the money due to a change in where the money was going, from the federal government to a nonprofit, according to a USA Today story.

Kolfage started the non-profit to raise the $1 billion to build the wall on private land. The board of directors includes Bannon and former Major League Baseball pitcher Curt Schilling.

After Cincinnati, the next We Build The Wall town hall is scheduled for the Detroit area.

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